Could this explain all the DNS problems that I and others have been having?

One troublesome technique finding favor with spammers involves sending mass mailings in the middle of the night from a domain that has not yet been registered. After the mailings go out, the spammer registers the domain early the next morning.

By doing this, spammers hope to avoid stiff CAN-SPAM fines through minimal exposure and visibility with a given domain. The ruse, they hope, makes them more difficult to find and prosecute.

The scheme, however, has unintended consequences of its own. During the interval between mailing and registration, the SMTP servers on the recipients' networks attempt Domain Name System look-ups on the nonexistent domain, causing delays and timeouts on the DNS servers and backups in SMTP message queues.

If so, it's just one more reason to make spamming a capital offense.

Get a Vanquish account and just start accepting bonded mail (or sending visual challenges to your new correspondents).

I'm not complaining about getting spam, Sam--I don't have that big a problem with my own email. I'm complaining about the spammers wrecking the internet.

Interesting. I wonder if some of the 'referer' spammers are doing the same thing. I keep finding referrer spams that reference non-existent domains.

Speaking spammers, here is one I would like everyone to be aware of :

Timothy L. Drobnick Sr
tim6@dedicated-server-solution.org

He claims you subscribed to his MLM list and now he wants you to visit his brand new blog:

http://timshotline.com/blogger.html

You go there to get off his list and it's nothing but how to spam people.

I suggest complaining to Blogger.com about him.

I also suggest complaining to the chief of police in Gahanna, Ohio where he lives. And for good measure, send him all the spam you receive. Fair is fair: He spams you, you spam him. Maybe if he gets enough spam he'll get a real, honest job.

Maybe if he gets enough spam he'll get a real, honest job.

Hopefully the time-honored profession of making little rocks out of big rocks.

James, it seems very odd that you accuse this tim of spamming, yet I get many emails promoting your website on my spam trap email addresses.

your website at
http://sellwritingo n line.com/colhess.html

Perhaps you are just another competitor to Tim and are jealous of other spammers?

Perhaps it is some other kind of envy?